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Edgar Arceneaux

African American

b. 1972

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  1. Beyond the Great Eclipse: Newsweek The Riots In Color by Edgar Arceneaux, Image 2.

    Edgar Arceneaux

    Beyond the Great Eclipse: Newsweek The Riots In Color, 2009

    Direct to plate photogravure etching and aquatint on Somerset white paper

    25 x 17.5 in (63.5 x 44.45 cm)

Edgar Arceneaux (b. 1972, Los Angeles) is an artist working in the media of drawing, sculpture, and performance, whose works often explore connections between historical events and present-day truths. He played a seminal role in the creation of the Watts House Project, a redevelopment initiative to remodel a series of houses around the Watts Towers, serving as director from 1999 to 2012. His work has been featured at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Performa 15, New York; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among other venues. Arceneaux is also an Associate Professor of Art for Roski School of Art and Design at USC; he lives and works in Pasadena, California.